Social media - keeping the news alive in Kenya
Two scandals have rocked Kenya in the very recent past - and social media has ensured that the people know about them (Video)...
(Image extracted from the YouTube video recording the event)
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- BD Live: Muthoni Maingi, writing in BD Live - in her LETTER FROM NAIROBI describes two scandals that have set the tone for Kenya's new year...
Last week, she writes, "the country was shocked by images of schoolchildren tear-gassed and in conflict with armed riot police. The cause of the drama was a protest against the alleged land grab of the school's playground."
That was followed by a local MP being videoed and widely commented on in social media after making a complete idiot of himself at a weighbridge when police had an issue with his vehicle.